underrated songs from classic bands

[Mango]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Aha - Sun Always Shines on TV (better than Take on Me)
Men At Work - Overkill (better than Down Under)
New Order - Truth Faith (better than Bizarre Love Triangle)
Pet Shop Boys - Heart (better than West End Girls)
Mr. Mister - Is It Love (better than Kyrie)
Glass Tiger - Thin Red LIne (better than Don't Forget Me)
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (better than all their other songs)

Since you selected some New Wave-type artists, I thought I'd add a few:

Life's What You Make It - Talk Talk (perhaps one of the most underrated bands of the 80s)
"C" Moon Cry Like a Baby - Simple Minds
Someone Like You - New Order
Don't Answer Me - Alan Parasons Project

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Calculon

Stairway to Heaven is such an incredible song that it cannot be overrated.

Agreed, however it's popularity has caused it to overshadow a library of incredible work....much of which is on par with Stairway, IMHO.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Calculon

Stairway to Heaven is such an incredible song that it cannot be overrated.

i didn't say it was overrated, i said it was played too much. Zeppelin has such an impressive vault of songs to choose from it's depressing that so much of it never gets any airtime because every radio station is obsessed with Stairway

[Dion]

Boston - Rock and Roll Band
Bryan Adams - Everything I Do
Don Henley - Heart Of The Matter
The Doobie Brothers - Black Water
Electric Light Orchestra - Turn To Stone
Van Halen - Jamies Cryin
Streetheart - Under My Thumb
Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands
Huey Lewis _ I Want A New Drug
Heart - Barracuda
Foreginer - Double Vision

[flip]

Originally Posted by Hanna Sniper

The Pink Floyd - Childhood's End

agreed. one of their best. i would also include fearless off of meddle.

for zeppelin i would say achilles last stand. and people are strange by the doors.

[604flames]

Originally Posted by flip

for zeppelin i would say achilles last stand. and people are strange by the doors.

ooh good one! Ten Years Gone too..

Saw the Doobie Brothers mentioned... Gotta go with Without You.

[Devils'Advocate]

Originally Posted by Dion

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do

Really? I thought it cheesy and over-rated. But the others I agree with.

If I were to name something under-rated by Adams it would be the whole "Into the Fire" album, particularly Heat of the Night.

Let's see what else I can come up with:

AC/DC - Flick of the Switch album, particularly "Rising Power"

Chain of Fools - Aretha
Hurricane - Dylan
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - Springsteen
Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly
Half-Breed - Cher
Chris de Burgh's whole "Spanish Train" albums, especially the title track.
Industrial Disease - Dire Straits (I remember as a kid, I'd do my homework to a tiny transister radio - when this was a hit, I'd spend more time turning the dial trying to find it than actually doing homework)

I'm a HUGE Don Henley fan, so I could do a whole list of underappreciated songs, but I'll put "A Month of Sundays" at the top of the heap.

I never, ever, ever have heard "In the Ghetto" by Presley on the radio. I have that in my "30 Star Songs" playlist. But that's the kind of stuff that my mother would play when I was a kid...

Say You Will - Foreigner
December, 1963 - Frankie Valli
Heartless - Heart
Gimme Some Truth - Lennon
Rain on the Scarecrow - Mellencamp (another in the 30 stars playlist)

Zepplin's whole Presence album, particularly "Achilles Last Stand".

I Don't Care Anymore - Phil Collins
I also don't hear "Against All Odds" on the radio anymore....
Brass in Pocket - Pretenders

Everything R.E.M. did before "Automatic for the People".

Rock and a Hard Place - Stones
Famine, Black Boys on Mopeds - Sinead
God Part II - U2

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

Rain on the Scarecrow - Mellencamp (another in the 30 stars playlist)

What a fantastic song.

And I now realize it is missing from my Mellencamp's "Best I've Done" CD. Time to get some new Mellencamp.

Agree with much of your other suggestions too. Well done!

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by Dion

Queen - Fat Bottom Girls

One of my faves.

I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad,
But I knew love before I left my nursery,
Left alone with big fat Fanny,
She was such a naughty nanny!
Hey big woman you made a bad boy out of me!

[metallicat]

How about the entire Load album by Metallica? It's easy to pick on that album, but it's my favorite of all their stuff. That doesn't mean I despise their 80s music either.

[PsYcNeT]

Blue Jay Way - The Beatles
L'America - The Doors
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Black Man - Stevie Wonder
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
Up The Ladder To The Roof - The Supremes
Don't Explain - Nina Simone/Billy Holiday
Straight On - Heart
Do It Again - Steely Dan
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Pigeon Camera - The Tragically Hip
The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallica
N.I.B. - Black Sabbath
High Hopes - Pink Floyd (repeated for awesomeness)

I'll think of more later

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Blue Jay Way - The Beatles
L'America - The Doors
Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks
Black Man - Stevie Wonder
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin
Up The Ladder To The Roof - The Supremes
Don't Explain - Nina Simone/Billy Holiday
Straight On - Heart
Do It Again - Steely Dan
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Pigeon Camera - The Tragically Hip
The Thing That Should Not Be - Metallica
N.I.B. - Black Sabbath
High Hopes - Pink Floyd (repeated for awesomeness)

I'll think of more later

Great list.

[socalwingfan]

Listened to Motorhead - The Year of the Wolf on my drive in this morning - great song!!!

[troutman]

Rolling Stones - Rocks Off
Who - Going Mobile
Rush - Analog Kid
Queen - '39
ELO - Turn To Stone
REM - Begin The Begin
Clash - Police On My Back
David Bowie - Panic In Detroit
Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain
Steely Dan - Kid Charlemagne
Bruce Springsteen - No Surrender
Prince - Paisley Park
Pretenders - Message Of Love
Ramones - I'm Against It

[Frank the Tank]

Eminance Front by the Who. Awesome song on a terrible album.

[Flamesguy_SJ]

Queen - The Prohpet's Song

[chris lindberg]

^ Just Awesome, Joy of My Life, John Fogerty

[chris lindberg]

Shine it all around, Robert Plant
enjoy...

[chris lindberg]

In the mood, Robert Plant, If I Were a Carpenter is another awesome tune!

[chris lindberg]

Two Gunslingers, Tom Petty
He's got so many others too...Listen to her heart, Even the Losers, Shadow of a Doubt, Honey Bee, Dark of the Sun, Stop Draggin My Heart Around, You Wreck Me, Here Comes My Girl